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How Does Steinbeck Describe Places And Places
The colour green is used to describe the river by Steinbeck, this creates a very positive image in the minds of the reader who along which the diction Steinbeck used to describe the slipped winkling gets a positive childlike feeling because as kids we like to play in the green parks and we often sing rhymes about twinkling stars, Steinbeck is using this this show a free environment where animals have freedom.

the colour yellow used to describe the sands is another way Steinbeck uses diction to describe the setting as a very ideal place with riches in it, coupled with the fact that the foothills are gold.

Steinbeck shows a wonderful environment with many creatures, However, these creatures are also shown by him to be very passive as they
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this might show that he trying to create parallels using the setting for contrast.

IN CHAPTER 6the deep green pool is still in the late afternoon but, Steinbeck starts using diction as in “the sun had already left the valley and colours like rosy”, slowly change the readers perception, the fact that the sun had left reminds the reader that Lennie has left after killing wife, we know this as just after this he uses rosy the colour used to describe Curleys wife, so the phrases the sun had left coupled with rosy, show us that Steinbeck has used this to allude to Curleys wife’s death in the last

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